I am using XAMPP, version 3.2.1. I just installed it on Windows 8. Every time I need to go to the XAMPP Control Panel to start services (MySQL, Apache,...); in Windows 7 it started automatically when Windows came up.
Is there a way I can make it auto-start in Windows 8 too?
Start the control panel using "Run as administrator". Then you can install Apache and MySQL as a service: